Info Fusion Centre comes to aid of hijacked ship
The New Indian Express|December 23, 2023
NOT many would know that the anchor of the Indian Navy's quick reaction to the distress call by the hijacked Merchant Vessel Ruen lay in Gurugram where the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) is located.
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Info Fusion Centre comes to aid of hijacked ship

"At the back end IFC-IOR coordinated responses and assistance between the Navy and the ship owner," said Lieutenant Commander Rohit Jadhav, Operations Officer of IFC-IOR to the media on Friday.

"Quickly we got hold of the owner of the ship," said Captain Rohit Bajpai, Director IFCIOR. "We were in touch day and night while an Indian Navy patrol aircraft that was in the region was continuously monitoring the vessel till INS Kochi, on deployment in the Gulf of Aden, reached the location on the morning of December 16.

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